AI voice translator app launches from Addevice
Thursday, November 9, 2023 by Richard Harris
Armenian software development company Addevice has launched idict, a mobile app that allows users to instantly translate both voice and text communications into 137 different languages. idict is now available for mobile phones and tablets on the Apple app store and Google Play.
Addevice launches translation app Idict.AI, that allows users to instantly trans...
Voice Technology predictions for 2022
Friday, January 14, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Joe Hagan, Chief Product Officer, is responsible for the LumenVox product portfolio. For more than 20 years, Joe has directed high-performing Product Management, Strategy, and Marketing teams across a diverse set of technology companies. Prior to joining LumenVox, Joe established the Product Management function and built out the marketing organization for CiBO Technolog...
AI and Voice predictions for 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Scott Stephenson is a dark matter physicist turned Deep Learning entrepreneur. He earned a Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Michigan where his research involved building a lab two miles underground to detect dark matter. Scott left his physics post-doc research position to found Deepgram. Stephenson talks about his 2022 predictions and what’s ...
Breakthrough in voice biometric optimization comes with IDVoice 2.11
Monday, January 27, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
ID R&D announced the newest release of its voice biometric solution, IDVoiceTM version 2.11. This release delivers a breakthrough in voice biometric optimization with an AI-based SDK of under 1MB, enabling voice biometrics to be implemented on the edge - from chips to IoT devices - for a new era of security and personalization in the voice-enabled UX.
IDVoice, ID...
Interactive voice AI technology lands from Instreamatic
Wednesday, September 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
Instreamatic, the voice dialogue marketing platform that allows media companies and advertisers to measure, manage, and monetize audio content by utilizing new interactive voice AI technology, and AirKast, a mobile publisher and ad network for broadcasters and media companies in the U.S., has announced a partnership that integrates Instreamatic into AirKa...
Tech to expect at CES 2019
Friday, January 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
CES 2019 is almost here, but before the lights come on and the crowds begin to gather, here’s a sneak peek at what Futuresource Consulting expects will be the key tech trends to hit the global consumer electronics stage in January.
Headphones will make a big noise
Headphones have been making a resurgence over recent years and the category’s ascendance ...
AI digital voice assistants stops listening as much thanks to Sensory
Friday, September 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Sensory announced that it has made significant upgrades to the embedded AI in its sixth generation of TrulyHandsfree, boosting the technology’s wake word performance and accuracy by more than 65 percent. Additionally, TrulyHandsfree boasts improved deep-neural network training that allows for even better near- and far-field speech recognition performance in all ro...
AI voice app study to be done on remote patient monitoring
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
Orbita, Inc. has announced a collaboration with AARP to study remote patient monitoring and reduce social isolation. As participants in the 2018 Pulse@MassChallenge accelerator, the organizations will study new digital approaches for leveraging natural language processing to new enable hands-free, digital experiences for the 50-plus population. The work will guide ongoi...
Making voice enabled apps for home or business
Monday, March 12, 2018 by Richard Harris
A voice-enabled application is a piece of software integrated with a service like Amazon Lex to add a conversational interface. This is typically a technology that we associate with consumers, thanks to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana, and Google Home. However, history tells us that consumers expect the enterprise to mirror their own personal use of technolog...
Voice to text in multiple languages for speechenabled apps
Monday, November 13, 2017 by Rebecca Ray
It seems that our fingertips will finally get some rest from the constant tap-tap-tap on keyboards that continue to shrink beyond recognition. Companies such as Amazon, Baidu, Google, and Microsoft are working to take us into a voice-activated future. Their speech-enabled platforms are designed to support natural language conversations with the devices, gadgets, sensors...
The future of the voice enabled AI
Friday, August 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Eventually everything you own will be commanded with text or voice in the future. But specifically we may see that voice has the advantage over it's counterpart due to a more natural feel and simplicity of use. That is why things like Amazon Alexa are starting to take off. Voice recognition has finally got on par with text, and it’s now much faster to say a command than...
Why you should add voice and intelligence to your apps
Friday, May 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
SoundHound Inc. is a voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence provider that has turned sound (voice, music, and more) into understanding and actionable meaning, enabling humans to interact with the things around them in the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally to mobile phones, cars, TVs, music speakers, and every other part of the emergin...
New Alexa voice commands now available for many Netgear products
Thursday, March 2, 2017 by Austin Harris
NETGEAR, Inc. is introducing support of voice commands for your home WiFi network using Amazon Alexa voice service platform. Your voice can now command NETGEAR Nighthawk routers, Nighthawk DSL modem routers and their Orbi Tri-Band WiFi System.The Amazon Alexa voice service has become a popular command center for smart homes. And now, using the NETGEAR skill for Alexa, y...
Samsung Teams With Sensory for Face and Voice Authentication
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Samsung SDS, Samsung Group’s IT service provider is teaming up with Sensory to offer banks and enterprise customers high-security embedded face and voice biometric recognition technologies. Sensory’s TrulySecure technology will be added to Samsung’s FIDO biometric authentication offering. Samsung’s SDS FIDO Client product will use Sensory’s FIDO UAF Certified ...
Nuance Releases Voice Recognition IoT Development Platform
Friday, December 18, 2015 by Richard Harris
Nuance Communications has launched Nuance Mix, a new developer platform for mobile and consumer electronics. Currently available as a limited release beta via the Nuance Developers program, the development platform gives device makers and developers the ability to create customized voice and natural language Internet of Things (IoT) segments such as smart home, gaming, ...
New Social App Allows You To Record Short Voice Messages Called Beeps
Monday, December 1, 2014 by Richard Harris
Editors Note: Contributed by the developers of Beep, Pieter Parker and Nick BarthWe live in an age where everyone is digitally connected, but emotionally disconnected from each other. While the internet has connected the world, it hasn’t yet promoted human interaction. We interact with images, text, and buttons, not people. It feels as if somethings missing. Someth...
AGNITiO’s KIVOX Mobile SDK Combats Spoofing Through Voice Biometrics
Thursday, November 27, 2014 by Richard Harris
AGNITiO is a voice biometrics company that has developed KIVOX Mobile, a software development kit (SDK) which enables on-device secure speaker verification for the user. Users can authenticate themselves by using their voice -- authorizing any app powered by KIVOX to use a voiceprint. Users have the ability to select a passphrase which is predefined or choose...
KANDY Provides Real Time Video, Voice, Presence and Text into Web and Mobile Apps
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
GENBAND has launched KANDY, a real time communications software development platform, designed to help companies build communications that are more integrated and immediate. Kandy provides the ability to embed real time video, voice, presence and text into web and mobile applications.KANDY’s Platform-as-a-Service framework includes APIs, SDKs and quick starts that inclu...
api.ai Launches To Allow Developers To Voice Enable Any App
Tuesday, September 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
The company Speaktoit has a new API available, aptly called api.ai. It allows developers to create custom voice interaction scenarios (essentially voice-enabling their app with logic). This isn't just voice recognition - this is voice recognition that understands what action to take based on that input (think Siri, only not).For example, you can have users do cert...
Expect Labs Offers MindMeld API Voice Powered Search Results
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
Expect Labs is adding to the smart shopper experience with a new turnkey solution for building voice-powered applications using the company’s MindMeld API. With the API, any developer can create a voice-driven experience for their app or website.The MindMeld Platform is a cloud-based service that analyzes contextual signals from users and automatically finds documents a...
SpeechStorm Releases Mobile Interactive Voice Response Platform
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
SpeechStorm has introduced its ‘Jackson’ software release as part of its SpeechStorm Framework IVR (Interactive Voice Response) platform. The new release offers new multilingual, mobile and testing capabilities for companies need multilingual capabilities.The SpeechStorm platform already supports voice applications and multiple languages and with the addition of Jackson...
AirPush Offers Share of Voice Mobile App Ad Campaign Optimizer Tool
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
Airpush’s Share of Voice (SOV) is its newest update to its Optimizer tool which, for the first time, provides the ability for advertisers to monitor the percentage of wins a campaign is earning in order to precisely track how much of all available inventory they’re receiving. SOV makes it easier to make intelligent bidding optimizations, enabling the ability to fine-tun...
Nuance to Provide Voice Capabilities to Oracle Mobile Apps, Updates the Nuance NDEV Mobile SKD
Saturday, May 24, 2014 by Richard Harris
Nuance Communications and Oracle are now working together to provide Nuance voice and language offerings to Oracle mobile apps. Oracle will use Nuance Cloud Services to add speech recognition and synthesis to certain mobile apps that support Oracle Applications for ERP, SCM, CRM, and HCM, Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud Service, Oracle RightNow Cloud Service and Oracle Ta...
VoxImplant’s New Android App SDK Lets Developers Embed RTC Voice Communication Services
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
VoxImplant has announced the release of its Android SDK, which provides developers the ability to embed voice communication into native Android applications. VoxImplant provides both infrastructure and scalability so that mobile developers do not need to deal with the complexities of setting up a cloud infrastructure for voice. The platform offers real time communi...
Microsoft’s Bing Conversational Understanding Team Releases MSDN Voice Search App
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft’s Bing Conversational Understanding team has released a new reference app, the MSDN Voice Search App, that demonstrates how to integrate your app into the new contextual voice capabilities available in Windows Phone 8.1.The app itself is very simple and straight-forward, surfacing the MSDN documentation library from the Cortana experience. Once you have t...
VoiceVault Release ViGo Voice Biometric Platform for Mobile App Development
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
VoiceVault has released ViGo, a standardized approach to mobile voice biometrics that provides a complete voice biometric ecosystem to facilitate mobile app development and deployment.ViGo 100% focused on mobile, is cloud-based and is pre-configured for simplicity using either phrase or digit-based identity verification.ViGo accelerates speed to market saving organ...
Siri for Enterprise Virtusa and Xtone Partner to Bring Voice Assistant Solutions to Enterprise Mobile Apps
Monday, October 21, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Your mobile enterprise solution could include a voice assistant through a newly announced partnership. Virtusa, a consulting and IT outsourcing company, and Xtone, provider of the Xavi Platform for Voice Assistants, have announced a partnership to enhance the user experience for mobile enterprise apps with the power of natural language understanding and conversational i...
App Developers, Publishers and Marketers Will Have to Evolve with Voice Ads
Thursday, August 22, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Would you like to be a Pepper too? Now mobile users can actually answer that question with Nuance’s “Voice Ads” product, another evolution of the mobile ad delivery process.
Voice Ads allow mobile users to talk back to ads, creating a new level of interaction between advertisers and consumers. The Nuance Voice Ads SDK provides the backend power needed to created ...
Rebtel Voice platform for iOS and Android
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 by Richard Harris
Rebtel has announced a new way for mobile developers to add voice functionality to their apps with supposedly very little effort. Their new SDK is set to launch in a private beta on Tuesday.The service is free for now but Rebtel says that large volume users could see some sort of pricing structure as they continue to grow.This could come in real handy for deve...
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